Let Them Blog

Huffaker, David A.

doi:10.4018/978-1-59140-494-1.ch019

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“…Davies and Merchant (2007), writing about adult academic bloggers, highlight the social, networking dimensions of blogging which resonated with our own convictions about classrooms as communities of readers and writers. Huffaker (2005), working with pupils from primary through to secondary school also identifies the communal characteristics of blogging where:…”

Section: A Byte About Blogsmentioning

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Does teaching complex sentences have to be complicated? Lessons from children's online writing

Kelly¹,

Safford²

2009

Literacy

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This paper draws upon data from a research project, undertaken in 2 Year 6 classrooms during the 2006 World Cup, to analyse how children used complex sentence structures in their writing on a football web-log. We explore how the confluence of a temporary, popular, global event and an online forum for communication created a moment of linguistic empowerment where pupils began to use high-level forms of language, and we consider the implications of transience and interactivity for the teaching and learning of sentence grammar.Key words: literacy, grammar, complex sentences, blogging, ICT, interactivity, digital writing, online writing, sport, football, World Cup Kicking off . . .''I think that if England are winning comfortably then I would put on Theo so he can get past the tired defenders. But if England were chasing the game, then I wouldn't put him on because it puts a lot of pressure on him and he'll get frustrated and lose the ball.'' These are the words of 11-year-old Alan, written during the run of the World Cup, 2006. Alan is speculating as to whether England captain, Sven Goran Eriksson, should try out the inexperienced young player, Theo Walcott. Alan was a reluctant writer, so as teachers our first response was one of delight at the enthusiasm and exuberance with which he articulated his opinion.A closer examination of Alan's writing reveals that this pupil, whose literacy folder in school was virtually empty, has expressed his ideas using multi-clause complex sentences, which include adverbial clauses of condition, reason and result. What was making this difference to Alan's writing? He, and 2 Year 6 classes, were blogging; Alan was contributing to on an online football web-log. His blog entry is one piece of data from a wide-ranging corpus of evidence collected from a research project exploring the language affordances (Marsh, 2005, p. 4) of a global sporting event.

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Section: A Byte About Blogsmentioning

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Does teaching complex sentences have to be complicated? Lessons from children's online writing

Kelly¹,

Safford²

2009

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“…Students can utilise blogs as a knowledge log (Brescia & Miller, 2006) and record learning journeys (Dickey, 2004). Blogs have been used to promote literacy in terms of reading and writing (Banister, 2008;Cole, 2011;Huffaker, 2005aHuffaker, , 2005bTodras-Whitehill, 2005). The affordance of blogs in allowing students to comment on their peers' postings provides opportunities for feedback (Ferdig & Trammell, 2004).…”

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Exploring Students' Motivations in Using Blogs at the Primary School Level

Ong¹,

Cheung

2015

International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design

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Blogs have been widely used in education for the numerous benefits the tool offers. Previous research has examined the use of blogs in various educational settings, but very few studies have been carried out at the primary level. This study explored students' motivations to use blogs in a primary school context. A case study approach was adopted and data were collected through online reflections, supported by and triangulated with data from face-to-face interviews. Findings revealed several reasons that motivated students to blog, and students' motivations to blog seemed to suggest that the students were subconsciously meeting one or more psychological needs, namely belonging, competence, freedom, and fun, and the need for competence was the most prevalent amongst students in this study. This study also provides teachers in the school to gain some insights into what motivated their students to use blogs when they design instructional activities in the future.

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“…Posts may include multimodal content, such as text, image, video and sound, as well as links to other posts within the blog and to other web-based spaces and artefacts outside of the blog. Blogs may link to other blogs, creating a networked community of blogs and bloggers, or blogosphere (Eisenlauer & Hoffman, 2010;Grieve, Biber, Friginal, & Nekrasova, 2010;Herring, Kouper, Scheidt, & Wright, 2004;Huffaker, 2006;.…”

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Exploiting the Distinctiveness of Blogs to Overcome Geographic Isolation

Adlington

2014

AIJRE

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This paper explores the distinctiveness of the blog as a new kind of text and the capacity for blogs to connect and engage students in distinctively different ways. Web 2.0 provides many opportunities to connect otherwise geographically isolated people. Further, Web 2.0 texts, such as blogs, cultivate new techno-social communicative practices. To take advantage of blogs in rural educational settings, an understanding of the affordances of these new texts must inform English curriculum development and teaching. The paper discusses the ways in which blogs differ from other texts, and how opportunities for co-authorship may be used to overcome geographical isolation for students.

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Let Them Blog

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Does teaching complex sentences have to be complicated? Lessons from children's online writing

Does teaching complex sentences have to be complicated? Lessons from children's online writing

Exploring Students' Motivations in Using Blogs at the Primary School Level

Exploiting the Distinctiveness of Blogs to Overcome Geographic Isolation

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